It's Friday already! Our meeting on Wednesday night went wonderful. We enjoyed ourselves as we sang, shared, and I especially enjoyed preaching on both Wednesday night and again on Thursday morning at a nursing home. The dear church gave us a wonderful love offering, and a ministry from the church gave me a couple bags of shirts, pants, ties, and sweaters. What a blessing! We enjoyed getting to know everyone and having fellowship. The pastor and his wife took us out to eat at a Mexican restaurant which was fabulous, then took us to a "religious landmark" in town. It was the place where Bob Jones Sr. grew up, well and all. Most everything around is very city-fied, but it was pleasant to visit and pray where such a great man of God from yesteryear once stood.
I got the prayer cards ordered last night! They should be in some time on Monday. Look below to get the preview!
Today will be another errands day and getting ready for cold calling on Monday--prayerfully, I'll start booking for June 2011 in Wisconsin then.
Days (daze?) in the life of Chris Lanier and Family, Missionaries to Arteaga, Mexico. Contact Information, Information Packet and Prayer Letter Archive below!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Monday Monday
Praise The Lord for another good day. We caught up on our sleep a bit today and left SC by about 10:30 this morning. We drove for a couple hours and stopped for lunch. While eating @ Shoneys, I made some calls and scheduled a meeting. While back on the road, I scheduled another. When we finally arrived at our great host's house in Madison, I booked another in Oregon, for a total of 3!
I spent the evening getting re-organized and trying to get a plan together for our prayer-card crisis. I spoke to the guy that's making the new one, and he told me it would probably be ready this week. So, I edited a picture we have of us and some of our people in Mexico, just adding a little contact information, and uploaded it to walmart.com. I was going to just get the old prayer card printed and delivered for the mean time, but it would be about $200 to get only 100 done and delivered by Wednesday morning. $20 for the mean-time is much better!
I'm still adjusting to the Mac computer. I have decided I definitely do NOT like it. I don't like the absence of a regular "delete" key, nor the absence of the "home" and "end" keys. My email is still destroyed, but at least workable. The paint program doesn't work nearly as well as M$ Paint, and even the internet has issues. The only thing I like about it is that it generally doesn't get bogged down and it responds pretty well to commands.
Tomorrow is an errand running and phone-follow up day. I'm always amazed at how things just kind of pile up. Walmart, the bank, the church, dry cleaners, and an auto-car wash--and whatever else comes up while I'm out. Everything needs to be done tomorrow because we're leaving out again on Wednesday, and not returning until Thursday night.
So, it's off to bed. I'm so thankful we have one more day to rest and recuperate before heading back out again. We're pretty filled up with meetings, except for the last week and a half of August. There's still hope for them, though! Maybe we'll fill them up tomorrow!
I spent the evening getting re-organized and trying to get a plan together for our prayer-card crisis. I spoke to the guy that's making the new one, and he told me it would probably be ready this week. So, I edited a picture we have of us and some of our people in Mexico, just adding a little contact information, and uploaded it to walmart.com. I was going to just get the old prayer card printed and delivered for the mean time, but it would be about $200 to get only 100 done and delivered by Wednesday morning. $20 for the mean-time is much better!
I'm still adjusting to the Mac computer. I have decided I definitely do NOT like it. I don't like the absence of a regular "delete" key, nor the absence of the "home" and "end" keys. My email is still destroyed, but at least workable. The paint program doesn't work nearly as well as M$ Paint, and even the internet has issues. The only thing I like about it is that it generally doesn't get bogged down and it responds pretty well to commands.
Tomorrow is an errand running and phone-follow up day. I'm always amazed at how things just kind of pile up. Walmart, the bank, the church, dry cleaners, and an auto-car wash--and whatever else comes up while I'm out. Everything needs to be done tomorrow because we're leaving out again on Wednesday, and not returning until Thursday night.
So, it's off to bed. I'm so thankful we have one more day to rest and recuperate before heading back out again. We're pretty filled up with meetings, except for the last week and a half of August. There's still hope for them, though! Maybe we'll fill them up tomorrow!
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Back to Reality
We had great time at 2 different camp-meetings last week. We made several excellent contacts and ran into some old friends. We were greatly encouraged and pumped back up! We really needed a week of good preaching and fellowship. It was so nice to soak up such awesome preaching and singing and taking time to fellowship with other preachers and laymen. God worked in our lives and took care of us, even if we've been too tired to really appreciate it all yet!
We've been in South Carolina all day today (Sunday, August 8th). We came here because I had a meeting booked over here, but on the way the Pastor called and cancelled. I had reserved a prophets chamber at a great church in the area, and after prayer, we decided to keep on going and to trust God. No meetings, just simple faith. So, we got to the prophets chamber late on Saturday evening and prepared for Sunday. Sunday morning we had a great time in what I believe to be one of the best churches we've visited in the last year. The missions Pastor took us out to eat afterwards to a Mexican place and we had a great time. We got some rest in the afternoon and went to a different church that the missions pastor from the morning recommended to us to drop in on. The time was alright and we enjoyed ourselves.
Tomorrow we're headed back. I need to make several calls tomorrow at lunch, while driving back home (about a 6 hour drive). I'm looking forward to booking meetings in the next couple days with pastors that I've met this last week, and as well as thru some follow-ups I have to make.
We're out of prayer cards. I gave the pictures and information to a friend of mine a month ago and he told me 2 weeks, but we still don't have the finished product. Prayerfully, he'll be able to finish them and I can get them printed and delivered by Wednesday. It will cost us extra money, but we don't have a choice.
We've been in South Carolina all day today (Sunday, August 8th). We came here because I had a meeting booked over here, but on the way the Pastor called and cancelled. I had reserved a prophets chamber at a great church in the area, and after prayer, we decided to keep on going and to trust God. No meetings, just simple faith. So, we got to the prophets chamber late on Saturday evening and prepared for Sunday. Sunday morning we had a great time in what I believe to be one of the best churches we've visited in the last year. The missions Pastor took us out to eat afterwards to a Mexican place and we had a great time. We got some rest in the afternoon and went to a different church that the missions pastor from the morning recommended to us to drop in on. The time was alright and we enjoyed ourselves.
Tomorrow we're headed back. I need to make several calls tomorrow at lunch, while driving back home (about a 6 hour drive). I'm looking forward to booking meetings in the next couple days with pastors that I've met this last week, and as well as thru some follow-ups I have to make.
We're out of prayer cards. I gave the pictures and information to a friend of mine a month ago and he told me 2 weeks, but we still don't have the finished product. Prayerfully, he'll be able to finish them and I can get them printed and delivered by Wednesday. It will cost us extra money, but we don't have a choice.
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